For about the same cost as of case of PBR, you can buy a cheap software defined radio called the RTL-SDR. With this simple USB dongle, you can turn your PC into a wideband radio scanner and use it to sniff out RF signals anywhere from 25 MHz to 1700 MHz. In case you’re not familiar, an SDR receiver works a lot like a traditional radio transceiver, except that most, if not all, of the signal processing that would normally happen in hardware, is done with software instead. Essentially, an SDR receiver captures the raw radio signals (using a tuner), Continue Reading
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Oldsmobile Modsmobile
If there’s one good thing about driving a $500 POS with no A/C and a driver’s door that doesn’t open, I guess it’d be that you can’t really make it much worse. Before the brakes blew out for the second time, I made a couple mods to my 1995 (??) Cutlass Supreme, aka The Stallion. Since the Cutlass was already an extremely high-performance machine, and that fact that I know next to nothing about auto mechanics, the upgrades were purely electronics related. CarPlay The first order of business was to hack in an aux input into the radio, which only Continue Reading
DJ Big Gulp
Need tunes on the river? DJ Big Gulp’s got you covered! Bluetooth enabled and ready to party for hours!